Reading Literature
This term describes the time and place in which a story happens.
What is setting?
Why is it important to acknowledge counterclaims in an argumentative essay?
What is it shows fairness, strengthens credibility, and allows you to refute opposing viewpoints effectively?
Simile
What is comparing two things using like or as?
What is a colon and it is used to start lists?
What is nothing? The creature is unnamed.
The central message or lesson in a story is called this.
What is theme?
What is the difference between a claim and a thesis?
What is a claim is an individual argument or idea; a thesis is the main overarching argument of the entire essay?
Hyperbole
What is an extreme exaggeration?
Which punctuation mark is used to join two closely related independent clauses?
What is a semicolon?
Victor's love.
Who is Elizabeth?
How a piece of writing makes the reader feel while reading it.
What is mood?
Explain how transitions strengthen the organization of an essay
What is they guide the reader between ideas, maintain logical flow, and signal relationships (e.g., contrast, cause/effect)?
Identify this example of figurative language:
"...and Juliet is the sun."
What is metaphor?
This happens when two independent clauses are joined together with no punctuation.
What is a run-on sentence?
How the creature learns to speak and read.
What is by watching the cottagers?
This is when an author gives hints or clues about what will happen later in the story.
What is foreshadowing?
Which is more effective and why? A) “Pollution is bad.” B) “Air pollution contributes to nearly 7 million premature deaths each year worldwide.”
What is B—it provides specific, impactful evidence that supports the claim with measurable data?
The three types of irony.
What are dramatic, situational, and verbal?
Three ways to fix a comma splice.
What are: adding a coordinating conjunction, adding a semicolon, or ending the sentence and starting a new one?
What is something or someone to be viewed with sympathy or antipathy?
The attitude that an author displays in a piece of writing; they do this with specific word choice.
What is tone?
What term refers to when a writer returns to explaining why their claims are stronger after acknowledging the counterargument?
What is a rebuttal?
Alliteration
What is the repetition of the same consonant sound at the beginning of nearby words?
When you hyphenate a word.
What is adding a hyphen between two or more words acting as one adjective before a noun?
Answers vary:
-Playing God can have dangerous consequences
-There are dire consequences for abandoning responsibility